Sex-related diet specificity in Bombylius major and some other bombyliidae (diptera)

Entomological Review

Volumn 87, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 812-821

  Panov, A A ^a  

^a SEVERTSOV INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOMBYLIIDAE; BOMBYLIUS MAJOR; DIPTERA; HEMIPENTHES; HEMIPENTHES MORIO; SYSTOECHUS;

EID: 36348959578     PISSN: 00138738     EISSN: 15556689     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1134/S0013873807070032     Document Type: Article

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